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All of this to help avoid stalls. Such a pity because avoiding a stall seems to be one of the first things a new pilot learns. Every pilot should know how to de

• _croz 7y ago
  It was less about avoiding stalls and more about making sure the performance characteristics of the MAX were similar enough to the previous generations of 737s so that a new type rating wasn't required for the pilots which would have required expensive training.
• msbarnett 7y ago
  It’s not about avoiding stalls per se, it’s about the uncorrected aerodynamics of the 737 MAX being such that at a certain point it becomes easier to pull into a stall than push away from it. While pilots learn to avoid stalls, commercial planes are designed deliberately such that at any point short of a stall it always takes less force to avoid one than create one. Uncorrected, the 737 MAX’s behaviour is a dangerous and surprising deviation from norms. It runs counter to pilot training, and it makes the stall recovery they’re trained to perform significantly more challenging than it would otherwise be. That’s why the FAA rule about column forces exists.
  • salawat 7y ago
    The uncorrected behavior also violates a design directive encoded in the CFR's. The plane could not be certified as airworthy without MCAS active due to the non-compliant stick force response curves.